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VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Ducks traded Bryan Allen to the Montreal Canadiens for winger Rene Bourque on Thursday as they used a potential spare defenseman to add depth amomg their forward ranks.

Allen, 34, was made aware of the trade at the team's hotel after the morning skate. The veteran was slated to be scratched for tonight's game against Vancouver as Francois Beauchemin returns to the lineup.

The trade has the appearance of teams moving high-salaried players whose roles had diminished. Bourque, 32, is owed $2.5 million this season and next to finish off a six-year, $20-million deal he signed with Calgary in 2010.

Montreal put Bourque on waivers Nov. 9 and the winger has been playing with the Canadiens' American Hockey League team, the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Ducks will be charged with a $3.3 million salary cap hit.

Ducks genreal manager Bob Murray said Bourque will report to Anaheim after a work visa has been secured for the enigmatic forward. Murray said talks about Bourque resumed with Montreal GM Marc Bergevin two weeks ago after they originated at the NHL draft, where Bergevin told him Bourque had requested a trade.

ST. LOUIS -- The Ducks sent injured defenseman Bryan Allen to the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League on a long-term conditioning loan Thursday.

Allen has yet to play a game this season because of a lower-body injury suffered right before the opener. The veteran, who is beginning his third season with the club, can play up to three games with the Admirals or stay with them as long as six days.

Allen, 34, is in the final year of a three-year contract that pays him $3.5 million this season.

Defenseman Shea Theodore, the Ducks' first-round pick in 2013, was also sent to Norfolk to continue his rehabilitation from an elbow ligament sprain that he incurred during a rookie game against San Jose in September.

Theodore is expected to return to the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League once he is fully recovered.

The Ducks made a number of roster moves Wednedsay, sending goalie John Gibson to Norfolk of the American Hockey League and putting on injured reserve winger Pat Maroon and defenseman Bryan Allen.

Gibson is heading down to Norfolk in order to play in two games with the AHL's Admirals this weekend as Frederik Andersen has grabbed an early hold on the starting job with the Ducks. Andersen won all three of his starts on the just completed trip.

Gibson, 21, lost his only start, a 6-4 decision to Pittsburgh in the season opener. He stopped 33 of 39 shots in that defeat. The Ducks are expected to recall him after he plays in the two-game set against Manchester on Friday and Saturday.

Maroon was hurt in Monday's victory over Buffalo and the earliest he'll be able to come off injured reserve is Tuesday. The full extent of his left leg injury will not be determined until he is examined by team doctors late Wednedsay afternoon.

ANAHEIM – Eight is usually too many when it comes to an NHL defense corps but don’t tell the Ducks that.

Eight has been enough for them. The Ducks figure to enter the season with that many of NHL-caliber patrolling their blue line, even though they’ll go with the routine six in games.

The top two pairings are set with Cam Fowler and Ben Lovejoy as partners and Hampus Lindholm skating alongside Francois Beauchemin. Clayton Stoner was signed to a four-year, $13-million deal in July so he is going to play.

It means that the Ducks have designs on giving Sami Vatanen every chance to lock down an everyday job while having veterans Bryan Allen and Mark Fistric waiting in the wings in case he doesn’t take the step forward that many expect he can do.

CALGARY, Alberta -- Andrew Cogliano hit the 20-goal mark for the first time in what is already a career season. And he was in no mood to celebrate that achievement.

Along with defenseman Bryan Allen, the Ducks' iron man was left to assess a wretched showing by the Ducks in their 7-2 loss to Calgary on Wednesday night.

It was as bad of an effort that the once-soaring Ducks have shown in recent memory and Cogliano didn't mince any words as his team is on the verge of being caught by San Jose for the Pacific Division lead.

Words that the speedy forward used were "embarrassing" and "ridiculous". Asked if he felt everyone was on board Wednesday, Cogliano flatly said, "I don't think anyone was."

ANAHEIM -- Ducks defenseman Bryan Allen has been dealing with a foot injury and it is now serious enough to warrant putting him on injured reserve, according to multiple sources.

Allen played just 15 minutes on Sunday against Vancouver and did not take part in Monday's optional practice or the morning skate prior to Tuesday's home game against Boston.

The veteran shutdown defender is expected to be put on injured reserve retroactive to Sunday and it means he won't join the Ducks on their two-game road trip to Nashville and Phoenix. Allen also missed three games in late November because of an illness.

Allen, 33, has seven assists and a plus-13 rating in 40 games with the Ducks.

ANAHEIM -- The Ducks won't have the services of injured defensemen Francois Beauchemin and Bryan Allen for at least a few more games as they head into a difficult portion of their schedule.

Both will not play in the upcoming two games Friday at home against Calgary and Saturday in San Jose, with Beauchemin possibly out for at leat another week.

Beauchemin has missed the last three games because of an unspecified upper-body injury suffered last week when he crashed into the boards during a game against New Jersey.

The plan is for him to skate on Monday and possibly join the Ducks on a two-game road trip to Chicago and St. Louis. It means that he'll also miss Tuesday's home game against the Kings.

"I don’t know how it’s going to feel," Beauchemin said. "Right now, I'm just training, working out and making sure everything is going as planned. The earliest would be the road trip but even that, I'm not going to know what's next until after how things are going on the ice."

DALLAS -- The rash of injuries that have plagued the Ducks continues unabated with defenseman Bryan Allen now sidelined for their game Tuesday night against the Dallas Stars.

Allen suffered a lower-body injury in the second period of the Ducks' 4-2 road win Saturday over Phoenix. It will be the first game missed for the veteran shutdown defender, who has also chipped in five assists along with a solid plus-8 rating in 25 games.

The Ducks recall of journeyman Nolan Yonkman now comes in handy as Yonkman will make his debut with the club. Yonkman, 32, signed a one-year deal in July and has 74 NHL games with Washington, Phoenix and Florida on his resume.

The 6-foot-6, 253-pound Yonkman opened eyes with his physical play during a long stay in training camp. He had three assists and a plus-1 rating in 18 games with the Ducks' AHL team in Norfolk (Va.).

Teams often talk about the buzzword that is the process. There is an ending point but the means to a desirable end can define that team.

The Ducks lost on the TD Garden scoreboard Thursday night, the Boston Bruins ultimately walking out of the arena with a 3-2 decision won by a shootout.

Perhaps the Ducks gained something in the process. It was them who largely dictated just how much the Bruins – the team that advance all the way to the Stanley Cup final – would have to work in order to pull out their win.